{"id":2294307,"date":"2026-02-22T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2294307"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:32:14","slug":"a-major-desperate-housewives-death-was-spoiled-by-a-real-life-courtroom-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-major-desperate-housewives-death-was-spoiled-by-a-real-life-courtroom-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"A Major Desperate Housewives Death Was Spoiled By A Real-Life Courtroom Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many of the most shocking TV character deaths work so well because they come as a surprise and disrupt the show’s status quo. ABC’s “Desperate Housewives<\/a>” had precisely such a demise up its sleeve with the shocking Season 8 death of Mike Delfino (James Denton<\/a>), the husband of Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher<\/a>). Mike’s murder by the shady Donny (Sal Landi<\/a>) was one of the biggest beats of the show’s final season. However, fans who had been paying attention to events behind the scenes already knew it was coming, thanks to a court case between former “Desperate Housewives<\/a>” star Nicollette Sheridan<\/a> and the makers of the show.<\/div>\n

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Many of the most shocking TV character deaths work so well because they come as a surprise and disrupt the show’s status quo. ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” had precisely such a demise up its sleeve with the shocking Season 8 death of Mike Delfino (James Denton), the husband of Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher). Mike’s murder by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2294307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-Major-Desperate-Housewives-Death-Was-Spoiled-By-A-Real-Life.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294309,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294307\/revisions\/2294309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}